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Scouts are theMessengers of
Peace(HM King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia)
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Scouts are the
Messengers of
Peace(HM King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia)
Since 2001, the Messengers of Peace initiative
of World Scouting has inspired over 10 million
scouts in 110 countries to work for peace in their
communities from Salvador scouts work withviolent street gangs to New Orleans scouts working
in post-Katrina New Orleans, or the scouts in the
Great Lakes region of Africa running an amazing
inter-ethnic peace education.
Messengers of Peace was inspired by a great friend
of Scouting, His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi
Arabia, when he saw the peoples of the world
moving apart in late 2001. He was joined by the
Swedish King (the Honorary Chairman of the
World Scout Foundation) and the two Heads
of State were so impressed with the results
that they have now launched a second phase
of Messengers of Peace challenging the Scout
Movement this time to ind 20 million scouts to
change their communities and their world.
By the time of its launch in Jeddah in September2011, over 300,000 scouts had already signed
up for this new challenge signing on line
(scoutmessengers.org and Facebook). Each pin
on the map represents one of the 12,000 projects
they have devised to bring peace and harmony to
their communities. And at the launch, a further
4 million scouts worldwide pledged to join the
initiative!
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Andrew help members of his troop to rebuild a neighbourhood
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Impressiveresults
In the irst phase, Scouts between 14 and 25 years
old implemented projects which restored peace to
their communities. For some, Peace is a clear goal
inter-ethnic conlict, intercommunity mistrust in
these cases scouts cross the dividing lines and help
bring people together.
For others, peace can be deined as stability
or harmony in their community so bullying in
school, marginalized young people in a community,
health problems or environmental degradation
become the challenge.
Normally scouts ind the resources for these projects
in their own communities most of the value added
comes from volunteer time and dedication.
And even in the less afluent communities
some fundraising is possible In Kenya, the
work of scouts with over 20,000 street kids has
been inanced exclusively from local resources!
The value of this global initiative to the world
over ten years is quite impressive: 10 millionscouts, working for an average of 100 hours
each on their projects this amounts to an
amazing one billion hours of service! Value
each hour of service at just one dollar and the
value to the worlds economy is not small!
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Nestor works everyday in the mangrove swamps
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Support
FundSome projects are so good that they need to be
brought to scale, and even replicated in other
communities or other countries. And so a Support
fund, based in the World Scout Foundation has
funded projects in many countries.
Food for Life, is an amazing project, initiated in the
townships of South Africa, helping poor children
to learn basic micro-farming skills, grow their ownfood and learn basic business skills. The support
fund helped strengthen this programme in South
Africa, and has since funded its adaptation to six
other African countries where it is lourishing in very
different communities.
In order to bring programmes to scale in their own
countries, many scout organisations themselves need
support in strengthening their capacities Haiti, for
example, is a case in point with just 3,000 scouts
ten years ago, this country which is devastated
each hurricane season, was supported through
the global Scout network and when two years
ago it was hit by a devastating earthquake,
over 40,000 scouts were trained and ready
for action in the irst hours as autonomous
local groups because all communications were
down, and then as one of the only national
NGOs capable of helping foreign organisations
like the UN and other NGOs to distribute relief,
and help rebuild communities.
Seeing this, for the second phase, King
Abdullah kindly gave an amazing gift of USD37
million to support the programme over 10
years! This support fund will contribute
partly to capacity building and mainly to
supporting local projects come to scale and to
be replicated in other communities or regions
of the world.
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John displays the food he has grown for his family
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Building the network
Their Majesties the King of Saudi Arabia and the
King of Sweden challenged scouts worldwide to
build their network of Messengers of Peace. They
have also called for leaders in society throughout the
world to become Friends of Messengers of Peace.
What can you do to help your local scout group to
implement a project that changes your community?
How can you help nationally, or Internationally?
Theres space for companies too. The Global support fund is in
need of your support. Can you help match King Abdullahs gift?
Let us know
Contact:
John Geoghegan
World Scout Foundation
jgeoghegan@worldscoutfoundation.org
+41227051090
Real Value
But the real value of this programme, according to HH Prince
Faisal bin Abdullah, Minister of Education of Saudi Arabia, is not
the money, its the inspiration meeting scouts from over 90
countries at the launch in Jeddah and from 160 countries a couple
of months earlier at the World Scout Jamboree in Sweden, Prince
Faisal is one of the reasons why so many scouts have signed up.
We are all Messengers of Peace he stresses its the common
cause of scouts worldwide!